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  • Subject: [BL] X library upgrade
  • Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:19:53 +0000 (UTC)

sjphone works in BL2 with glibc 2.2.5 if you upgrade to Slackware 8.1 libX11.so.6.2 (from SW71 6.1). SW81 is xfree 4.2, and SW71 xfree 3.3.6.

mplayer plugin additionally needed a later libXext and/or libICE.
Since firefox won't work with SW81 glibc, users of firefox with plugins should upgrade to SW11 X libraries.

VOIP providers claim you need 300MHz and 128MB RAM to use a softphone. sjphone uses about 3MB RAM offline and might work on a 100MHz laptop with 16MB RAM and BL2. I don't know how to upgrade BL3 to libX11.so.6.2 since it has libc5 based libX11.

I probably need to upgrade binutils to compile mplayer (it contains linker 'as') along with the full glibc developers' package.

Sindi Keesan



  • [BL] X library upgrade, baslinux, 04/06/2009

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